{"id":12364,"date":"2011-12-01T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/windows-live-writer\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:04:35","slug":"windows-live-writer","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/27921\/windows-live-writer","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_windows_live_writer_mean\">What Does Windows Live Writer Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Windows Live Writer is a blog editing and publishing tool that enables the user to write and publish their blog posts to a number of supported blogs simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p> Windows Live Writer has WSIWYG (what you see what you get) type authoring, where users can see what they have created before publishing it. 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